Background

Mr. Stephen S. Rasmussen, also known as Steve, has been the Chief Executive Officer at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (NMIC), an affiliate of Harleysville Group Inc. since February 2009. Mr. Rasmussen serves as Chief Executive Officer of Nationwide since 2009. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company (NMFIC) since February 2009. He joined Nationwide in 1998. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Nationwide ... Mutual Insurance Company since 1998. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Property and Casualty Insurance Operations at Nationwide from 2003 to 2009. Mr. Rasmussen served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company since September 2003. He served as an Executive Vice President of Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. from September 2003 to February 2009. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Allied Insurance and served at CalFarm Insurance. He served as an Executive Vice President of Allied Group, Inc. since March 3, 1998. Mr. Rasmussen Allied's Executive Vice President for Product Management and Regional Vice President for the Pacific Coast Regional Office. He served as Vice President of Underwriting of ALLIED Mutual, AMCO, ALLIED Property and Casualty and Depositors since 1986 and the Allied subsidiary insuracompanies from December 2000 to September 2003. He joined Allied in 1974. He served various management positions with Aland its subsidiaries from 1974 to 2004. Mr. Rasmussen served as President and Chief Operating Officer of ALLIED Group, Inc. (Allied), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual, and also serves as its Chairman of several Allied subsidiaries. He served as Co-Chairman of the Columbus United Way Tocqueville Vingt-Cinq Society campaign. He serves as a Director of Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc. He has been a Director of American Electric Power Co., Inc. since September 25, 2012. He serves as a Director of Nationwide and Catalyst Inc. He serves as a Director of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, and Nationwide Life Insurance Company. Mr. Rasmussen serves on the Boards of the National Urban League, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and the Columbus Convention Facilities Authority and the Columbus Metropolitan Library. He served as Director of the Ohio Health Board of Directors. He served as Trustee for Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Iowa.

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